Obs. Also -tre, -tyr(e. [ad. L. clōstrum, var. of claustrum, whence OHG. klôster, Ger. kloster, MDu. clooster, Du. klooster in same sense.] A cloister, monastic cell, or monastery.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 80. A closter þei bigan. Ibid., 172. Better him wer … in clostre haf led his life.
c. 1425. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 670/6. Hoc claustrum, clostyre.
1556. Chron. Gr. Friars (1852), 98. The swerde was willed to be borne downe in the closter.
b. Comb.
1536–40. Pilgr. Tale, 182, in Thynne’s Animadv. He loked not as he were closter-pent.
Closter, -tre, obs. ff. CLUSTER.
